“Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are, as sand, as dust, or less than dust, in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. Nothing! We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s Pensées and read, ‘I am the great silent spaces between worlds.” Carl Sagan Inspired by WordPress Photo … More The Ornate Serenity of Stars

The Milky Way floats above a pre-dawn cloudy sky in Central West NSW. Inspired by WordPress Photo Challenge – Afloat The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And … More Floating like dust in the morning sky

This week's WordPress Photo Challenge is Work of Art …. “ In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature … there is an intelligence that antedates the universe. ” Contact – Carl Sagan The Rho Ophiuchi Nebula is … More WPC – Work of Art

This week's Challenge is to interpret the concept of Threshold …… Angels with a flaming sword were set as sentries at the gates of Paradise to bar our return. The gardeners became exiles and wanderers. We find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs—in time, in space, and in … More Threshold …

The Large Magellanic Cloud – A Neighbor Galaxy to the Milky Way. Approximately 160,000 light years distant, the LMC is the 3rd closest galaxy. It has a diameter of 14,000 light years. The LMC and its neighbour the Small Magallenic Cloud were certainly known to ancient southern explorers, however it was Ferdinand Magellan whose sighting … More Celestial Laboratory

“We on earth marvel, and rightfully so, at the daily return of our single sun. But from a planet orbiting a star in a distant globular cluster, a still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns, the rising of the milky way”. “I believe … More A Glorious Dawn